Pilko

I felt sorry for him after Monday and despite the second half being a shapeless mess where we created nowt, centre back and right wing were glaringly shit and I put more of the frustration/blame/whatever towards the board. Those attacking figures today are absolutely inexcusable, though. To not lay a glove on a team right down at the bottom of the league with a fully fit first choice side (other than Botman) is really pathetic. Sick to death of the crap set pieces and flat midfield as well. He's not helping himself shoving square pegs in round holes all the time by sticking with this system. It does feel like we're stagnanting, and the lack of transfer activity is definitely a big part of why, but Eddie needs to be better and quickly or he'll be having Christmas and Boxing Day with the family at this rate.

0.01xg. He's ran out of ideas, we're absolutely chronic going forwards. Not good enough again today.

Fuck football.

Take the West Ham second half and that's basically nowt created whatsoever in the last 90 mins of play. Wilson's pen shout on Monday if you're being generous. Not good enough really.

Looked like we'd ran out of ideas that half. Hopefully second half will be different.

Insipid, if solidish half. Not as bad as some of the away showings we've posted but nothing to write home about at all.

Attention Marge Simpson. We have also arrested your older, balder, Anthony Fatterson.

Some of them on the groomers giving O'Nein stick and loads booting off about it. You dare not challenge the ability or presence of the clogger or hatchet man in the Sunlin team.

Funny how they're not keen to compare two pictures from 5 minutes after kick off. We had a full house and they must have had a good 20,000 lads listening on the radio in the Nissan factory judging by the massive gaps in virtually every block near the front.

Can't bring myself to feel too sorry for Villa after our own VAR bullshit call knocked us out last year in the toughest group of all time, whilst they get 4 or 5 guaranteed games against a load of divvy teams who belong in the Europa at best as well as the tougher fixtures.

Ally just thinks everything is either exsheaptional or shoepurb.

Is Mbappe one of the most overrated players in world football?

Have you got Saturday's lottery numbers? Tim Walter officially potted by Hull.

Foden's been absolutely chod as well compared to his usual standards which I think has had a big impact on them.

About three men and a wasp in that crowd. Loads of gaps in every single section near the front. I assume it's packed to the rafters up the top with two to a seat and lads sat on the roof watching when they announce 43,700 or whatever later on.

It'll be Burn in for Kelly and otherwise same again Saturday, unless there's an injury. Convinced of it.

You can't put any blame on Tonali for tonight, surely? Overlooked in favour of Longstaff yet again and then expected to get us out of the clarts in a midfield two with a vaguely shaped shower of shit around him and Bruno on one leg when he's finally introduced.

Can see his point. We tend to really up it for the bigger sides and then play like a bunch of limp dicks against the rest of the league when we're favourites.

Hopefully the scouts from Man City were in tonight because we'll have a much better chance of keeping him on showings like that.

Yeah, if Isak and Gordon had taken half of the big chances they've missed this season we'd probably be 2nd in the table. You've got to think that they'll start taking them at some point soon. Then again, the second half performance was a worry I thought, it turned into a confusing, scatty mess that created absolutely nothing other than a possible penalty shout. I do think Eddie's been hung out to dry with the standstill of a summer window and that has probably played a part in how stale and predictable we look at times. The good news for him, and us, is that the league is canny shit this season and it's still wide open for 3rd to 11th. All to play for if we can get a bit of consistency.

Pick of the bunch although he didn't have a lot to compete with tonight.

Of course Isak reverts to early season dickhead mode soon as I captain him. Fucking sick.

That wasn't great, at all. Can't put it all on Eddie of course but it turned into an absolute muddle after about 50 minutes and was still very much salvageable even at 0-2, but it was a proper mess. Created nowt of note other than the pen shout in the second half, not enough quality or goal threat at all. A shit show of a second half, so many passes over or under hit. In a display with hardly any quality from us whatsoever, centre half and right wing looked absolutely minging in particular and just highlighted our pathetic summer window not for the first time this season. Doesn't help himself by holding back Tonali, like. Corners and set pieces routinely awful from an attacking perspective yet again. Whatever work is being done on these through the week isn't effective enough. Free transfer or not, if Lloyd Kelly is Howe's man it only strengths the argument that he shouldn't have the keys to the kingdom and needs to work in the structure we're setting up. We can't afford to fuck up too many more of these home games after this and Brighton. You'll get the odd result like this or shitty draw but if we start losing to the non-top-6 teams too often we'll be looking at another lower midtable finish again. Hopefully one to forget about quickly and a reality check we can use to propel us into the next few games, but it was really shit and Eddie should rightly be fuming with some aspects of it, and take some of the flak for it also.

Really impressive party piece we have of finding the area of the box with no black and white shirts in it every time we put a corner in.